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Robbie Coltrane’Harry Potter’ Hagrid Actor, Suffering From ‘Continuing Health

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One of Britain’s most well-known comedians, Robbie Coltrane, who oversaw the school’s debating society and received awards for his work, is now a movie star who has been in two James Bond movies in the “Harry Potter” series.

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Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen, a neighbourhood of Glasgow, Scotland, on March 30, 1950. Jean Ross (Howie), his mother, was a pianist and teacher. His father, general physician Ian Baxter McMillan, also served as a police pathologist. Young Robbie loved movies, music, art, and automobiles. He devoured his father’s books on medicine and law enforcement. At Glenalmond College, he made his stage acting debut at age 12 by delivering rants from “Henry V.” Orson Welles and Marlon Brando captivated him at the time.

He majored in drawing, painting, and cinema at Glasgow Art School before spending a year studying art at Edinburgh’s Moray House College of Education. He produced the 1973 documentary “Young Mental Health,” which was chosen as the Scottish Education Council’s Film of the Year. Due to his love of jazz at the time, Robbie adopted the stage name Coltrane and started a career as a stand-up comedian at nightclubs, at the Edinburgh Festival, and as an actor with Edinburgh’s famed Traverse Theatre.

Coltrane made his cinematic debut as a limo driver in Death Watch in 1981 after making his television debut as “Border Guard” in the BBC miniseries The Lost Tribe in 1980. (1980). He played Detective Fritz Langley in Subway Riders (1981), directed by renowned underground filmmaker Amos Poe, in 1981, which was his debut appearance in a prominent role.

His appearances in The Comic Strip series, Alfresco (1983), and the Comic Strip flicks The Supergrass (1985) and The Pope Must Die (1991), among other movies, helped him become a well-known figure. At the time, Coltrane struggled with alcoholism and consumed up to a bottle of whiskey every day. He travelled to a facility in Mexico in 1986 to receive treatment for obesity. His 15-year companion Robin Paine left him permanently in 1987, leaving her portrait in Coltrane’s barn.

Coltrane first met Rhona Gemmell, then 18 years old, in a bar in 1988. They were married and had a daughter named Alice and a son named Spencer. With the lead part of Dr. Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a forensic psychologist, in the hit television series Cracker, his career took off in the early 1990s (1993).

His portrayal of Valentin Zukovsky, a former KGB agent turned St. Petersburg mafia leader, in GoldenEye (1995), was so effective that the film’s producers asked him to reprise the role in The World Is Not Enough (1999). Then Coltrane became involved in another successful property when J.K. Rowling personally chose him to play the half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies.

Early in the 1990s, Coltrane published his autobiography, “Coltrane in a Cadillac,” and he also starred in the television series of the same name, Coltrane in a Cadillac (1993), in which he indulges his love of classic cars and humorously recounts his 4,050-mile trip from Los Angeles to New York. He was divorced from his wife in 2003. Reading, restoring, and collecting classic cars have been some of his hobbies outside of the acting industry. Robbie Coltrane dwells in Stirlingshire, Scotland, a former farmhouse.

Robbie Coltrane, a star of the Harry Potter series, has been compelled to skip the next London Film and Comic Con due to “continued health issues.” The actor who played Rubeus Hagrid has battled health issues for years; in 2019, he was seen needing a wheelchair after speaking about his arthritic arthritis years earlier.

Robbie Coltrane must withdraw from the July Comic Con due to his ongoing health issues, according to a statement issued by Showmasters, the group behind the London Film and Comic Con. He deeply regrets disappointing his supporters and fans and sincerely hopes to attend another Showmasters event as his health permits.

Showmasters went on to say “We are obviously really sorry and saddened to learn of Robbie’s poor health and his inability to attend. We are looking forward to Robbie attending the show and sending him our best wishes. In the interim, all ticket holders who purchased tickets for Robbie will automatically receive vouchers. We will try to arrange for Robbie to attend a subsequent event.”

Coltrane, who is well-known for his work in the Harry Potter series as well as in Cracker and Goldeneye, has previously spoken up about his health problems. In 2016, he revealed that his doctors had urged him to shed roughly 100 pounds before having a knee operation that would change his life. “My body aches all day long. During an exploratory procedure, they found that one of my knees was missing all of its cartilage “In 2016, he spoke to The Daily Star. “It has entirely broken down. They confirmed that I have osteoarthritis. I think people are asking why I’m walking so awkwardly, so that’s why.”

Coltrane lost a significant amount of weight, but he admitted in 2016 that he was having trouble losing the final few pounds required for surgery. When asked about the impending operation at the time, he remarked, “The equipment has a piece of rubber in the middle and if you’re over a certain weight then you eventually flatten it.” “In order to have it corrected, I’ve been attempting to reduce weight. That’s another 25 pounds, the surgeon remarked when I last saw him. I’ve completed 84, but the final 25 are the most difficult.”

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